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Connecting Ted Cruz and Galileo Galilei
Ted Cruz
American politician (born 1970)
Cruz was endorsed first by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and then by the Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative political action committee; Erick Erickson, former editor of prominent conservative blog RedState; the FreedomWorks for America super PAC; nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin; Tea Party Express; Young Conservatives of Texas; and U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Pat Toomey.
Mark Levin
American lawyer, radio and television personality
Included are commentaries on works by Plato, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu and Alexis de Tocqueville. Conor Friedersdorf's review, published in '' The Atlantic'', criticized the text's argument that statism is based on utopianism, and Carlin Romano, in '' The Chronicle of Higher Education'', wrote that "''Ameritopia'' is really ''Ameritastrophe''.
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
He visited Galileo Galilei in Florence while he was under house arrest upon condemnation, in 1636, and was later a regular debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by Marin Mersenne.
Ted Cruz
American politician (born 1970)
With the passing of Fidel Castro in November, Cruz charged Obama with celebrating and lionizing Castro in public statements he made addressing the death. On December 28, after Secretary of StateJohn Kerry gave a speech defending the U.S.'s decision to allow a U.N. resolution to pass that condemned Israeli settlements "on land meant to be part of a future Palestinian state", Cruz denounced the speech as "disgraceful", and said that history would remember Obama and Kerry as "relentless enemies of Israel".
Fidel Castro
Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011
In March 2012, Pope Benedict XVI visited Cuba for three days, during which time he briefly met with Castro despite the Pope's vocal opposition to Cuba's government.
Pope Benedict XVI
The asteroid 8661 Ratzinger was named in his honor for the role he played in supervising the opening of Vatican archives in 1998 to researchers investigating judicial errors against Galileo and other medieval scientists.
Ted Cruz
American politician (born 1970)
After the hearings ended the podcast expanded its content to include other topics and interviews, including with Washington politicians such as U.S. Senators Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, and Mike Lee, Trump administration officials including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, then-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and actors Jon Voight and Isaiah Washington.
Jon Voight
Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s, appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in ''Ali'' (2001) for which his supporting performance was nominated for the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award and a Critics Choice Award, and also as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in '' Uprising'' (2001), as Franklin D. Roosevelt in Michael Bay's '' Pearl Harbor'' (2001) and as Pope John Paul II in the eponymous miniseries (2005).
In 2005, he played the title role in the second part of CBS' miniseries, ''Pope John Paul II''. In 2006, he was Kentucky Wildcats head coach Adolph Rupp in the Disney hit ''Glory Road''. In 2007, he played United States Secretary of Defense John Keller in the summer blockbuster ''Transformers'', reuniting him with ''Holes'' star Shia LaBeouf.
Pope John Paul II
* The legal process on the Italian scientist and philosopher Galileo Galilei, himself a devout Catholic, around 1633 (31 October 1992).
Ted Cruz
American politician (born 1970)
In the same speech, Cruz invoked the speeches of the ancient Roman senatorCiceroagainst Catiline to denounce Obama's planned executive actions on immigration reform.
Aristotle
Aristotle's writings on motion remained influential until the Early Modern period. John Philoponus (in the Middle Ages) and Galileo are said to have shown by experiment that Aristotle's claim that a heavier object falls faster than a lighter object is incorrect. A contrary opinion is given by Carlo Rovelli, who argues that Aristotle's physics of motion is correct within its domain of validity, that of objects in the Earth's gravitational field immersed in a fluid such as air.
In the Early Modern period, scientists such as William Harvey in England and Galileo Galilei in Italy reacted against the theories of Aristotle and other classical era thinkers like Galen, establishing new theories based to some degree on observation and experiment.
